Technologies Financials Cisco Leaders Acquisitions Potpourri
100
What is Cisco TelePresence
First introduced in October 2006, this is a range of products developed by Cisco Systems designed to link two physically separated rooms so they resemble a single conference room regardless of location.
100
What is $11.9B; down 1%Y/Y
Cisco's reported Q3'17 total revenue and Y/Y growth %
100
Who is Mark Patterson
This SVP leads the WW Sales Strategy team; and was a guest speaker at our last all hands.
100
What is Webex
This 2007 acquisition of a market leader in on-demand collaboration applications is still one of Cisco’s largest to date and today makes up over half of Cisco Collaboration business
100
Who are the Golden State Warriors
This is Charles' favorite sports team (looking for its 2nd title in 3 yrs)
200
What is an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA)
This multi-year agreement providing organizations with enterprise-wide entitlement to pre-defined software suites. It is designed to provide simplicity, flexibility and greater value for customers.
200
What is 13%?
Cisco's reported Y/Y growth % of Q3'17 product deferred revenue
200
Who is Kris Snow
This Cisco Capital finance leader is one of 3 business facing org's finance leaders (the others being Mike Mohn and Luis Visoso)
200
What is Flip
This acquisition, related to handheld recorders of high definition video is one in which Cisco leadership would like to take a mulligan on
200
What is -4% to -6% decline Y/Y
What's the guidance of Q4'17 revenue growth?
300
What are Flexible Consumption Models (FCM)
This is a Cisco term describing a range of consumption models that cover both approved Capex-oriented models (e.g. PAYG) and newer Opex-oriented XaaS models (e.g. CPEaaS). Many of these opportunities may result in high touch/visibility, custom deals.
300
What is 63%-64%
What's the guidance range of Q4'17 Gross Margin?
300
Who is Hilton Romanowski
The Chief Strategy Officer for Cisco
300
What is Meraki
This leader in cloud networking technology offers customers on-premise networking solutions centrally managed from the cloud that are easy to deploy and manage. Clue, the current finance leader is Bob Parker.
300
What is 'Mindmelds'?
This latest acquisition with focus in AI space will greatly help Collab BU
400
What is The Cisco Nexus Series
These series of switches, introduced by Cisco in 2008, are modular and fixed port network switches designed for the data center.
400
What is Switching 29% (+2% Y/Y). Strong growth in ACI.
This BU made up the highest Q3'17 revenue mix of Cisco portfolio.
400
Who is Kevin Bandy
The Chief Digital Officer for Cisco
400
What is OpenDNS
This previously privately held security company that offers advanced threat protection for any device, anywhere, anytime would soon after acquisition evolve into Cisco’s Security Umbrella solution.
400
What is Wannacry?
Name the most recent ransomware attack that impacted more than 90 countries. (and cited by Chuck in yesterday Earnings related to increased importance of Security business)
500
What is Cisco One
This software suite is a valuable and flexible way to buy software for your data center, WAN, and access domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, this suites software helps make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier.
500
What is $3.4B (~$68B ending balance)
This is the amount of operating cash Cisco generated in Q3'17
500
Who is David Goeckler
The SVP of Networking and Security
500
What is Acano
This 2015 acquisition accelerated Cisco’s collaboration strategy to deliver video everywhere, providing the best collaboration experience across every endpoint, every screen, every workspace, and to every user. This technology combined with technology developed by Cisco are at the heart of Cisco’s new Spark Boards
500
What is 17,000 (~16K - 18K are okay)
Approximate (rounding to nearest thousands) number of GSX sales attendees (each year)






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